At night in the chat noir we observed a working man's hero:Ville had to draw a comic report about the festival for a finnish newspaper until the next morning. Watching his progress: Sharmila Banerjee & Aisha Franz.

Sunday afternoon, most people have already left, when the awards ceremony was held. Shockingly, I got a pretty black & white kitty, too. In the middle, with the green scalf, Manuele Fior, winner of the main prize, and on my left Elodie Durand, who won, as well as me, the "Prix Révélation". (Foto: KP)

next morning: Paris

Reading in the Goethe Institut Paris with Jörg Stickan, who is the translator of the comic and also a great performer. (Foto: Vicky Ripart)

He read the texts in the balloons and translated my comments simultaneously. (Foto: Vicky Ripart)

Stranger, who got a Signature, and Aurélie Marquer, Organizer of the event. (Foto: Vicky Ripart)

In the middle: Dima Iakovlev from the comic festival in St. Petersburg.Not in the picture: Kristiina Kolehmainen (Spx Stockholm) and Frederik Strömberg from Sweden. (Foto: Vicky Ripart)

John Pham, Sylvain Lamy (editions Cambourakis) after a signing we had together in Vincennes.I will be on tour now for the next 12 days.

Signing in Lyon

Good food and vine in Lyon; unfortunately the conversation was very reduced, because Jean-? from the comic shop didn't speak English and he didn't want to speak German, although he learned it at school for 10 years, his mother was German and a German teacher in France, and as a child he spent his holidays at grandma's house in Germany.

Jean-Marie from the comic shop in Caen was not afraid of speaking English, and his amazing wife, Sophie, spoke it very well. The signing in Caen was fun, it took place in a little cosy restaurant, where the cider never dried.

Jean-Marie showing original drawings by Eddie Campbell, - the cat behind the window is awstruck, too.

Aix en Provence

Philippe from the comic department in the Librarie Goulard was praising my comic. He said:"The story has the quality of 'The Catcher in the rye' by Salinger. Did you ever think about writing it as a novel?"

EmmanuelGuibert arranged to meetwithusinan old printing studio called ITEM, founded in the 19th century. Artists like Picasso, Matisse et Miró made lithographies here. We felt like entering sacred halls of graphic art. Emmanuel did printings there, too (so does David Lynch), and he literaly was celebrating a mass for us about the joy of working as a comic artist.